U.S.-Japan Joint Seminar: Earthquake Resistant Design of Reinforced Concrete Beam-Column Joints/May 1989/Honolulu, HI

该奖项将资助由德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的James O.Jirsa教授和日本东京大学的Hiroyuki Ayama教授联合举办的“钢筋混凝土梁柱节点的抗震设计”研讨会。与会者将于5月24日至26日在夏威夷火奴鲁鲁会面，，报告美国和日本正在进行的研究项目的结果，并讨论这些结果对结构设计的影响。在这次会议中，除了纯粹的地震研究人员外，还邀请了结构设计师，以促进将结论迅速转化为实践，并协助评估研究数据。研讨会将汇集来自美国和日本的该领域的研究人员，以及来自两国和新西兰的一些观察员。因此，延续早先的几次联合研讨会，与会者来自在这一领域做出最大努力的国家，即。美国、日本和新西兰对此感到放心。这次研讨会将集中讨论以前很少被考虑的梁柱连接问题，因此，对于帮助快速开发和应用抗震钢筋混凝土结构技术将是重要的。

This award will support a seminar, "Earthquake Resistant Design of Reinforced Concrete Beam-Column Joints," organized jointly by Prof. James O. Jirsa of the University of Texas, Austin, and Prof. Hiroyuki Aoyama of the University of Tokyo, Japan. Participants will meet in Honolulu, Hawaii, from May 24 to 26, 1989, to report results of research programs under way in both the U.S. and Japan, and to discuss the implications of those results to the design of structures. In this meeting structure designers have been invited in addition to pure earthquake researchers, in order to facilitate rapid transfer of conclusions into practice, and to assist in the evaluation of research data. The seminar will bring together researchers in the field from the U.S. and Japan, with some observers from both countries and from New Zealand. Thus, continuity with several earlier joint seminars involving participants from those countries with the strongest efforts in the field, viz. the U.S., Japan, and New Zealand, is assured. This seminar will concentrate on the previously little-con- sidered problem of beam-to-column connections, and will be important, therefore, in assisting the rapid development and utilization of techniques for earthquake resistant, reinforced-concrete construction.